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* Thomas A. Sebeok ( 1920 – 2001 ), a student of Charles W. Morris, was a prolific and wide-ranging American semiotician.
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Time's editor, Thomas Griffith, in his book, The Waist-High Culture, wrote: `` most of what was different about it ( the Deep South ) I found myself unsympathetic to.
But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.
In emergencies the SAC commander, Gen. Thomas Power, or his deputies and their staff would occupy a balcony that stretches across the length of the room above Wisman and his staff.
Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.
His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
And one finds it again in Thomas Nelson Page ) to the effect that the Mayflower on its second voyage brought a cargo of Negro slaves.
They were not diplomats or jazz musicians, or even organizers of reading-rooms and photo-montage displays, but rugged capitalist entrepreneurs like Henry Ford, Hugh Cooper, Thomas Campbell, the International Harvester Co., and David W. Griffith.
The Leopard's Spots came from the pen of Thomas Dixon in 1902, and in this he announced an `` unchangeable '' law.
The tradition reached its apex, perhaps, in the works of Thomas Nelson Page toward the end of the century, and reappeared undiminished as late as 1934 in the best-selling novel So Red The Rose, by Stark Young.
One of the early humorists already mentioned, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, can be used to illustrate another point where Faulkner touches authentic Southern materials and also earlier literary treatment of those materials.
A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.
A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.
Sherman was responsible for the story when he said in his memoirs that this was the only time he could recall seeing Thomas ride so fast.
While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.
The cautious Thomas re-examined the note and then, making up his mind that it was genuine, snapped his fingers, whistled and almost danced in his exuberance.
Thomas thanked his men for their tenacity of purpose, unmurmuring endurance, cheerful obedience, brilliant heroism and high qualities in battle.
This system was dependent upon identical maps and Thomas supplied them from a mobile lithograph press.
Every recorded request by Thomas for a delay in a flank movement or an advance was to gain time to take care of his horses.
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" Jakobson's theory of communicative functions was first published in " Closing Statements: Linguistics and Poetics " ( in Thomas A. Sebeok, Style In Language, Cambridge Massachusetts, MIT Press, 1960, pp. 350 – 377 ).
Publication of research is both in dedicated journals such as Sign Systems Studies, established by Juri Lotman and published by Tartu University Press ; Semiotica, founded by Thomas A. Sebeok and published by Mouton de Gruyter ; Zeitschrift für Semiotik ; European Journal of Semiotics ; Versus ( founded and directed by Umberto Eco ), et al.
The major semiotic book series " Semiotics, Communication, Cognition ", published by De Gruyter Mouton ( series editors Paul Cobley and Kalevi Kull ) replaces the former " Approaches to Semiotics " ( over 120 volumes ) and " Approaches to Applied Semiotics " ( series editor Thomas A. Sebeok ).
Critics of primate linguistic studies include Thomas Sebeok, American semiotician and investigator of nonhuman communication systems, who wrote:
Accordingly, Thomas A. Sebeok has proposed not to use the term ' language ' in case of animal sign systems.
Thomas Sebeok suggests that a similar list of properties for life may coincide with the definition of semiosis, i. e. that the test of whether something is alive, is a test to determine whether and how it communicates meaning to another of its kind, i. e., whether it has semiosis.
The term " biosemiotic " was first used by Friedrich S. Rothschild in 1962, but Thomas Sebeok and Thure von Uexküll have done much to popularize the term and field.
Apart from Charles Sanders Peirce ( 1839 – 1914 ) and Charles W. Morris ( 1903 – 1979 ), early pioneers of biosemiotics were Jakob von Uexküll ( 1864 – 1944 ), Heini Hediger ( 1908 – 1992 ), Giorgio Prodi ( 1928 – 1987 ), Marcel Florkin ( 1900 – 1979 ) and Friedrich S. Rothschild ( 1899 – 1995 ); the founding fathers of the contemporary interdiscipline were Thomas Sebeok ( 1920 – 2001 ) and Thure von Uexküll ( 1908 – 2004 ).
It was developed by semiotician Thomas Sebeok based on the theories of German-Estonian biologist Jakob von Uexküll.
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